Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-05-20

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killing 100 head.
TWENTY nine foreigners own 20, 6i7,
600 acres of land IN this country-an
area larger than Ireland.
The Guanajuato. Mexico. paper:
state that large numbers of American
tourists are visiting that city.
The date of the visit OF her majesty
Queen Victoria to Birmingham to lay
the foundation of the new law courts is
postponed to March %.
THE Duke of Cambridge, cousin of
her majesty and commander-in-chief OF
the British army, is suffering from u
painful and irritating malady.
Missioner is said 10 be engaged
% grand canvas. in VIII. CHI he has de-
picted dragons galloping past Napol-
con with their heads uncovered
THE play-room of the children :
play house shortly to be built in San
Francisco, and for which senator Sha-
ron left $50. 200, will be thirteen hun
dred feet square.
A WRITER in The Scientific Amcrican
says that in experiences in Colorado
and Utah he never saw an Indian with
cold. He concluded that it is our hot
rooms that give us colds.
LIE two Italian fasting men. Succi
and Merratti, have reaped Little profit
from their late abstinence, NJ riatti
has gone back to his paiuting. and
Succi has returned to Italy.
II China son is responsible for the
debts of his father, and his rcspons-
bility continues TO the third generation.
This enables man to borrow money
on the strength of having a son
THE Virginia knights OF Pythias
are collecting fund to erect monu-
ment TO "Stonew ALL jackson npon
the battlefield of G charlottesville,
where he was mortally wounded.
MARY LoRING, whose death occurred
in Washington on Sunday, was the on
" child of chief engineer Lorng, and
had presided over her fathers home
since her mothers death. Her age
wa, 26.
The Marquis de Foulon. who recent
ly died in London at the age of -
years. was once drawing master to the
princess. now Queen Victor a. His on
~ son was in the British army. and
was killed. with his wife and child, at
Lucknow.
MoNTREALLs new mayor is Hon. J.
j. {. Abbott, in some regards the fore
most lawyer of the Dominion. In or
der to be unhampered in his new Office
he has res gned the lucrative position
OF attorney and general manager OF the
Canadian Pacific railway
Mr. WALTER IL CAMP. who was
wrongly suspected of shoot ne Mr.. G..
G.. Smith the other night, in Mad sou
square, and who promptly proved his
entire innocen>e OF any completely in
the alta r, is presently to be married to
sister of Prof, William G.. Sumner,
of Yale.
DR.. w. SEARLE, who attended Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher in his last illness.
was formerly a prominent home opathic
physician in Troy, n. Y. He left that
city about twenty years ago and took
up his residence in Brooklyn, where he
soon found place among the leaders
Of his profession.
THERE has been a generous rivalry
in Washington society this winter be-
tween the daughters of the two Oregon
scllllOT>. NJ IS vi ilcltIi mas ID zen nOlcu
for her beautiful face and Miss Dolph
for the symmetry of her figure.
Which one has the greatest personal
charm is still an open question.
A BILL was introduced in the forty
ninth congress providing for the APP
preparation of Si,600,000 for the pur
pose of sinking a 3,000-foot hole in
every state and territory in the union.
but no action was taken upon it, 1t,
object was securing useful knowledge
OF the IN nerals found in the earth.
/ BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR has name,
the steamer which he is to use on tn,
upper Congo for his wife. Annie Taylor
/ During their married life of more thar
forty Years Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor hav
been much separated by missionar
work. yet to this day." he says. &"
J ,,.,-ar baorI bor ohi,.t 10 p,v coinu N,